Overview

Research Centers and Laboratories

Center For Complex Systems and Enterprises

The Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises (CCSE) focuses its research on four key domains – Healthcare Delivery, Financial Systems, Urban Resilience and National Security. This trans-disciplinary center mobilizes the research vision, experience, talent, creativity and capabilities across Stevens and many of our collaborators. These collaborations foster new research and education in systems science and engineering to enable deep understanding of complexity and create innovative approaches to managing complexity. Results include powerful technologies, tools and solutions to address complex issues in the domains of healthcare delivery, urban resilience, financial systems and national security.

CRUX is a research and eduaction center dedicated to the proposition that coastal cities can increase their resilience to climate change and extreme events while simultaneously inproving their quality of life.

The Financial Systems Center (FSC) at Stevens Institute of Technology is a state-of-the-art financial research and teaching facility that supports programs at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. The first of its kind in the United States, the FSC serves as a platform for financial systems research and the development, testing and evaluation of software for financial networks and the investigation of cyber-security challenges in the financial domain. The Center was formed to apply systems thinking and related methods to analyze, understand and characterize the behavior of the complex global financial system.

Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) - A University Affiliated Research Center

In November 2008, Stevens Institute of Technology was awarded the nation's first DoD-funded University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) to focus on systems engineering research. This award represents the largest initiative focused in systems engineering in the nation. The Systems Engineering Research Center is led by Stevens Institute of Technology, with the University of Southern California (USC) serving as its principal collaborator. The SERC draws its resources and expertise from a collection of senior lead researchers from 18 leading collaborator schools and research organizations throughout the U.S. SERC leadership includes Dr. Dinesh Verma, Dean, School of Systems & Enterprises (SSE) as the Executive Director; Dr. Arthur Pyster, Distinguish Research Professor, as the Deputy Executive Director; and Dr. Barry Boehm, Director of the Center for Systems and Software Engineering, USC, as Director of Research.

Center for Complex and Adaptive Sociotechnical Systems (COMPASS)

The Center for Complex Adaptive Sociotechnological Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology is a research center focusing on the study of complex sociotechnological (human-engineered) systems and organizations. The vision of COMPASS is to advance the state of knowledge in complex sociotechnological systems through contributions to the fundamental science of adaptive complexity and to emerge as one of the top centers nationally and internationally for complex systems research.